Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber
Chair of Variation Linguistics
Contact:
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstraße 12-20
D - 48143 Münster
Room: 127
Phone: +49 (0) 251 - 83 - 2 56 03
E-Mail: deuber
Consulting hours: by appointment
Administration: Jutta Heuger
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Forschungsschwerpunkte
- weltweite Varietäten des Englischen (spezieller Fokus: Karibik)
- English-basierte Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen
- Sprachkontakt
- Soziolinguistik
- Korpuslinguistik
- Sprachgebrauch in Medien
Vita
Akademische Ausbildung
- Habilitation im Fach Englische Philologie, Universität Freiburg
- Promotion im Fach Englische Philologie, Universität Freiburg
- Promotionsstipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Gastdoktorandin, Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria (DAAD-Stipendium)
- Magister in den Fächern Englische, Deutsche und Romanische Philologie, Universität Freiburg
- Gaststudentin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (DAAD-Stipendium)
- Gaststudentin, University of Durham, GB (DAAD-Stipendium)
Beruflicher Werdegang
- Lehrstuhlinhaberin für Variationslinguistik, Englisches Seminar der Universität Münster
- Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, Englisches Seminar der Universität Freiburg
- Gastforscherin und -dozentin, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (DAAD-Stipendium)
- Wissenschaftliche Angestellte, Englisches Seminar der Universität Freiburg
- Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Teilprojekt "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" des SFB 541 "Identitäten und Alteritäten" der DFG an der Universität Freiburg
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Teilprojekt "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" des SFB 541 "Identitäten und Alteritäten" der DFG an der Universität Freiburg
Mitgliedschaften und Aktivitäten in Gremien
- Mitglied des Herausgebergremiums der Zeitschrift Journal of English Linguistics
- Mitglied des Herausgeberbeirats der Zeitschrift Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
- English World-Wide (Herausgebergremium, Mitglied)
Projekte
Laufend
- Translokalität in der anglophonen Karibik II: Soziophonetische Variation und Perzeption ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: DE 2324/1-2 - Variation im Englischen Internet und ihre Implikationen: Eine empirische Studie über Register im Netz in südasiatischen Ländern ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: DE 2324/3-1
Abgeschlossen
- ICE-T&T – International Corpus of English - Komponente für Trinidad und Tobago ( – )
Eigenmittelprojekt - Translokalität in der anglophonen Karibik: regionale, globale und transnationale Aspekte in Standards des Englischen ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: DE 2324/1-1
- Translokalität in der anglophonen Karibik II: Soziophonetische Variation und Perzeption ( – )
Publikationen
Fachbücher (Monografien)
- . . English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- . . Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting. London: Battlebridge.
Artikel
Artikel in Fachzeitschriften, Zeitungen oder Magazinen
Forschungsartikel (Zeitschriften)
- . . ‘Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad.’ World Englishes 42, Nr. 1: 48–72. doi: 10.1111/weng.12615.
- . . ‘Compiling a corpus of South Asian online Englishes: A report, some reflections and a pilot study.’ ICAME Journal 47, Nr. 1: 119–139. doi: 10.2478/icame-2023-0007.
- . . ‘The norm orientation of English in the Caribbean: A comparative study of newspaper writing from ten countries.’ American Speech 97, Nr. 3: 265–310. doi: 10.1215/00031283-8791736.
- . . ‘Context matters: Grenadian students' attitudes towards newscasters' and teachers' accents.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37, Nr. 1: 16–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00085.han.
- . . ‘Phonetic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37, Nr. 2: 357–394. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00098.wes.
- . . ‘Quotative be like in Trinidadian English.’ World Englishes 40, Nr. 3: 1–23. doi: 10.1111/weng.12465.
- . . ‘Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34, Nr. 1: 83–125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
- . . ‘The interplay of the national, regional, and global in standards of English: A recognition survey of newscaster accents in the Caribbean.’ English World-Wide 40, Nr. 3: 241–268. doi: 10.1075/eww.00031.han.
- . . ‘A multidimensional analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columns.’ English World-Wide 40, Nr. 1: 1–23. doi: 10.1075/eww.00020.sha.
- . . ‘Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33, Nr. 1: 48–91. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00002.deu.
- . . ‘A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English.’ World Englishes 37, Nr. 4: 607–623. doi: 10.1111/weng.12352.
- . . ‘The use of question tags in different text types of Trinidadian English.’ World Englishes 36, Nr. 4: 726–743. doi: 10.1111/weng.12247.
- . . ‘Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.’ Multilingua 32, Nr. 3: 289–319. doi: 10.1515/multi-2013-0014.
- . . ‘Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.’ World Englishes 32, Nr. 3: 338–357. doi: 10.1111/weng.12035.
- . . ‘Towards endonormative standards of English in the Caribbean: A study of students' beliefs and school curricula.’ Language, Culture and Curriculum 26, Nr. 2: 109–127. doi: 10.1080/07908318.2013.794816.
- . . ‘Standard English and situational variation: Sociolinguistic considerations in the compilation of ICE-Trinidad and Tobago.’ ICAME Journal 34: 24–40.
- . . ‘Modal verb usage at the interface of English and a related Creole: A corpus-based study of can/could and will/would in Trinidadian English.’ Journal of English Linguistics 38, Nr. 2: 105–142. doi: 10.1177/0075424209348151.
- . . ‘"The English we speaking": Morphological and syntactic variation in educated Jamaican speech.’ Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24, Nr. 1: 1–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.24.1.02deu.
- . . ‘Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.’ World Englishes 26, Nr. 1: 22–47. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-971X.2007.00486.x.
- . . ‘"First year of nation's return to government of make you talk your own make I talk my own": Anglicisms versus pidginization in news translations into Nigerian Pidgin.’ English World-Wide 23, Nr. 2: 195–222. doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.03deu.
- . . ‘Ethnicity versus national integration in Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective.’ Journal of Cultural Studies 2: 206–218. doi: 10.4314/jcs.v2i1.6243.
Rezensionen (Zeitschriften)
- . . ‘Review of David Jowitt, Nigerian English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019).’ English Language and Linguistics 25, Nr. 3: 671–675. doi: 10.1017/S1360674320000416.
- . . ‘Review of Carolin Biewer, South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2015).’ Anglistik 27, Nr. 2: 198–199.
- . . ‘Review of Dele Adeyanju, ed., The Sociolinguistics of English and Nigerian Languages (München: Lincom, 2009).’ English World-Wide 33, Nr. 2: 231–235. doi: 10.1075/eww.33.2.10deu.
- . . ‘Review of Farzad Sharifian and Gary B. Palmer, eds., Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for Second Language Learning and Intercultural Communication (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007).’ Multilingua 28, Nr. 4: 471–474. doi: 10.1515/mult.2009.020.
- . . ‘Review of John Holm und Peter L. Patrick, eds., Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars (London: Battlebridge, 2007).’ AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 33, Nr. 2: 338–341.
- . . ‘Review of Michael Aceto und Jeffrey P. Williams, eds., Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003).’ AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31, Nr. 2: 250–253.
- . . ‘Review of Paul Skandera, Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English (Tübingen: Narr, 2003).’ World Englishes 24, Nr. 4: 551–552. doi: 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00439.x.
- . . ‘Review of Susanne Mühleisen, Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002).’ AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 30, Nr. 1/2: 271–274.
Forschungsartikel in Sammelbänden (Konferenzen)
- . . ‘Teacher language in Trinidad: A pilot corpus study of direct and indirect creolisms in the verb phrase.’ In Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by , 1–11. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
- . . ‘ICE Trinidad and Tobago: Teacher language investigation in a university research class.’ In Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by , 1–11. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
Buchbeiträge
Forschungsartikel (Buchbeiträge)
- . . ‘Sociolinguistic competence and TEIL: A study of the sociolinguistic awareness and perceptions of be like among German learners of English.’ In Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, edited by , 121–138. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106-10.
- . . ‘Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model.’ In Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes, edited by , 274–297. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.003.0013.
- . . ‘The English of current Caribbean newspapers: American, British, in between or neither?’ In Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture, edited by , 43–74. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10/1515/9783110489071_003.
- . . ‘The Indian tabloid in English: What type of community does it speak to, and how?’ In Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, edited by , 113–128. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004335288_009.
- . . ‘American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago.’ In Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, edited by , 389–410. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/scl.67.16hac.
- . . ‘Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch.’ In English in the Indian Diaspora, edited by , 9–27. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g50.02leu.
- . . ‘Modals of possibility, ability and permission in selected New Englishes.’ In Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-Native Englishes, edited by , -. Helsinki: VARIENG.
- . . ‘Computer-mediated communication in Singapore: Spoken language features in weblogs and a discussion forum.’ In Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, edited by , 385–396. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- . . ‘Trinidadian Creole.’ In The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English, edited by , 320–328. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110280128.
- . . ‘Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies.’ In Mapping Unity and Diversity in English World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, edited by , 77–102. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g43.04deu.
- . . ‘The creole continuum and individual agency: Approaches to stylistic variation in Jamaica.’ In Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency, edited by , 133–161. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.37.09deu.
- . . ‘Writing non-standardized Pidgin/Creole languages in computer-mediated communication: A comparison of orthographic strategies in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.’ In Sprach- und Kulturkontakt in den Neuen Medien, edited by , 97–134. Lausanne: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0079-2.
- . . ‘Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects.’ In World Englishes - Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, edited by , 83–104. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g40.08deu.
- . . ‘Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis.’ In Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), edited by , 425–450. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789042029101_022.
- . . ‘Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures.’ In Structure and Variation in Language Contact, edited by , 243–261. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.29.14deu.
- . . ‘Linguistic and literary development of Nigerian Pidgin: The contribution of radio drama.’ In The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies., edited by , 289–303. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401200929_022.
Lexikonartikel (Buchbeiträge)
- . . ‘Syntax.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by , -. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Substitution test.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by , -. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Style.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by , -. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Interactional sociolinguistics.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by , -. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Creole continuum.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by , -. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Constituent test.’ In Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by , -. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Betreute Arbeiten
Promotionen
Hänsel, Eva Canan Standard accents in the Grenadian secondary and tertiary educational system: A study of attitudes and usage Hartmann, Johanna Mobile outer circle speakers’ attitudes towards different varieties of English Durgasingh, Ryan Influences on Trinidadian English Morphosyntax Gao, Cuicui Metadiscourse in Academic Lectures: A Comparative Analysis of MOOCs and University Lectures Lau, Ka Man Language use in social media marketing in Hong Kong: Variation and attitudes Meer, Philipp Standard English in Trinidadian Secondary Schools: Accent Variation and Attitudes Gerfer, Anika Jamaican Creole in Global Reggae and Dancehall Performances: Language Use, Perceptions, Attitudes Jansen, Lisa English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes Li, Zeyu Acquisition of Rhoticity by Second Language (L2) Learners of English Muhammad, Shakir A corpus based comparison of variation in online registers of Pakistani English using MD analysis Oyebola Kehinde, Folajimi Attitudes of Nigerians towards Accents of English Westphal, Michael Linguistic variation in Jamaican radio Wilson, Guyanne Alexis The Sociolinguistics of Singing: Dialect and Style in Classical Choral Singing in Trinidad Habilitation
Westphal, Michael Pragmatic variation worldwide: A variational-pragmatic analysis of question tags in different varieties of English